Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Enter the Shredder
TV Flash files “Enter the Shredder” as a desk essential hour — Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987–1996) on Syndication, season 1, episode 2, aired 1987-12-15, 25 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E02: listed hour 2 of 191 in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide, hour 2 of 5 in season 1. It aired 1987-12-15 (25 min). The listed hour before it is “Turtle Tracks” (S01E01). Next is “A Thing About Rats” (S01E03).
Essential hour: “Enter the Shredder”. Enter the Shredder is night-two villain: Shredder as the brand antagonist, kid-friendly martial-arts already a Christmas-list religion.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The Turtles find out about the Technodrome and try to find it. Splinter finds the Technodrome and ends up getting kidnapped by Shredder. When the Turtles find the Technodrome, Shredder tells the Turtles who is responsible for covering them in the ooze that mutated them.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Enter the Shredder sit in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide?
S01E02 is listed hour 2 of 191 — hour 2 of 5 in season 1, season 1 episode 2.
When did Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles S01E02 air?
Enter the Shredder aired 1987-12-15 and is listed at 25 minutes.
Comics first or the 1987 cartoon?
The cartoon sanded Eastman/Laird into kid-friendly slapstick and became the voice most later versions copy. 1987 is the theme, the pizza, and merchandising as plot — franchise religion, not the grim comic.
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Why this series still plays
Cowabunga as a business plan: four pizza-eating sewer mutants, a rat sensei, and a toy glut that owned late-decade Christmas lists. The cartoon sanded the Eastman/Laird comics into kid-friendly martial-arts slapstick and accidentally minted a franchise religion. The 1987 series is the voice, the theme, and merchandising as plot.
Cowabunga used to be a business plan, not a meme kit. Syndication, 1987 through 1996: four mutant turtles trained by Splinter battle Shredder and the Foot Clan — pizza, a rat sensei, and a toy glut that owned late-decade Christmas lists. The 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, from David Wise and Fred Wolf, sanded Eastman/Laird comics into kid-friendly martial-arts slapstick: Cam Clarke's Leonardo, Townsend Coleman's Michelangelo, Barry Gordon's Donatello, Rob Paulsen's Raphael. One hundred ninety-three…
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- Cam Clarke as Leonardo
Cam Clarke voiced Leonardo on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — cowabunga as a business plan, four pizza-eating sewer mutants, a rat sensei, a toy glut that owned late-decade Christmas lists. The cartoon sanded Eastman/Laird comics into…
- Townsend Coleman as Michelangelo
Townsend Coleman voiced Michelangelo on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — cowabunga as a business plan, pizza in the sewers, a 1987 cartoon that sanded Eastman/Laird comics into kid-friendly martial-arts slapstick and accidentally minted a…
- Barry Gordon as Donatello
Barry Gordon voiced Donatello on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — cowabunga as a business plan, pizza-eating sewer mutants, a rat sensei, a toy glut that owned late-decade Christmas lists. The 1987 cartoon sanded Eastman/Laird comics into…
- Rob Paulsen as Raphael
Rob Paulsen’s Raphael made cowabunga a business plan on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — pizza, a rat sensei, toy-glut Christmas lists — then ran amok as Yakko-era velocity on Animaniacs. 1987 sewer martial-arts slapstick; variety-cartoon…